Ehrman started out as a biblical literalist and through scholarship became a skeptic. He documents the ample evidence of human fallibility and ecclesiastical politics in holy writ. To assess how ignorant or theologically manipulative scribes may have changed the biblical text, modern scholars have developed procedures for comparing diverging texts. And in language accessible to nonspecialists, Ehrman explains these procedures and their results.

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